"Do not go into that room! The lady asian is very dangerous!" 
Posted on 10/05/2006 11:29:46 AM PDT by blam
Chinese reports of fusion wildly exaggerated
05 October 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition.
It sounded too good to be true - and it was. When the Chinese news agency Xinhua announced on 29 September that researchers had initiated thermonuclear fusion in a brand-new reactor, news organisations worldwide ran with the story. "During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius," Xinhua reported.
“Fusion always causes a lot of media hype because people really want it to happen”There was just one problem: nothing of the kind took place. "The reports were totally wrong," Jiangang Li, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, Anhui province, told New Scientist The Chinese researchers had, for the first time, managed to inject a plasma of ionised hydrogen into the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a doughnut-shaped machine designed to confine super-hot plasmas magnetically, and the plasma sustained currents of 250,000 amps for up to 3 seconds. But no attempt was made to introduce deuterium or tritium into the plasma, so no fusion can have occurred.
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The initial reports made it sound as though they were ahead of the rest of the world in sustainability.
Wildly exaggerated? More like blatant lies.
Everything's coming together on this fusion thing now.
Lee Ho Ponds and Ngyun Lee Fleishman
Chi-Com Con-Fusion Con?.........
No, the Chinese fusion "pilot" program is being headed up by Wong Wei!
If a nuclear reactor melts down in China, where does it go? Kansas?...........
Not to be misunderstood. '/sarcasm'
Your term is more polite than mine, mine is two words, the first starts with B, the second word starts with S....
First report I saw said the first test was succesful. Since the first test of an electrical device is usually to turn it on and look for smoke, this would mean that the device didn't catch on fire, which is a success.
I think someone confused the term "lady Asian" with "radiation".
The only "fusion reactors" the Chi-Coms have are bolted to the tops of ICBM's. This was just a ploy to encourage foreign investment.
Given the power range a tokamak operates at . . .
No smoke/fire on the first try is a BIG success.
"Do not go into that room! The lady asian is very dangerous!"
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